Kayce
Kayce was given to 843 boys in 2025, #375 among boys’ names; 6,540 Americans have been recorded with it since 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,440 Americans named Kayce and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 2 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kayce by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kayce?
#375 among boys’ names, 2025
Kayce rose from #4,473 in 2015 to #375 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.01 to 0.49 per 1,000.
928 babies in 2025, the peak
Kayce peaked in 2025, when 928 babies were given it (843 boys, #375 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 760 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 85 | #2,180 | 843 | #375 |
| 2024 | 89 | #2,146 | 760 | #419 |
| 2023 | 61 | #2,801 | 666 | #460 |
| 2022 | 53 | #3,099 | 488 | #587 |
| 2021 | 50 | #3,235 | 197 | #1,077 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,092 | 85 | #1,784 |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,393 | 48 | #2,674 |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,616 | 26 | #4,052 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,584 | 24 | #4,272 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,530 | 18 | #5,225 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #4,788 | 22 | #4,473 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,405 | 14 | #6,147 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,822 | 13 | #6,443 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,172 | 11 | #7,300 |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,863 | 9 | #8,438 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,450 | 7 | #10,222 |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,706 | 6 | #11,734 |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,129 | 8 | #9,434 |
| 2007 | 39 | #4,016 | 11 | #7,354 |
| 2006 | 49 | #3,337 | 7 | #10,134 |
| 2005 | 52 | #3,068 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 51 | #3,043 | 8 | #8,539 |
| 2003 | 49 | #3,067 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 48 | #3,037 | 7 | #8,935 |
| 2001 | 57 | #2,648 | 5 | #11,484 |
| 2000 | 66 | #2,351 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 70 | #2,163 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 100 | #1,626 | 7 | #8,025 |
| 1997 | 92 | #1,700 | 7 | #7,697 |
| 1996 | 70 | #2,003 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 61 | #2,197 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 75 | #1,891 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 77 | #1,858 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 104 | #1,509 | 5 | #9,120 |
| 1991 | 112 | #1,427 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 105 | #1,486 | 7 | #6,803 |
| 1989 | 100 | #1,464 | 7 | #6,582 |
| 1988 | 97 | #1,428 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 119 | #1,213 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 99 | #1,333 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 72 | #1,640 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 68 | #1,624 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 74 | #1,528 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 61 | #1,794 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 68 | #1,686 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 62 | #1,776 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 55 | #1,907 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 45 | #2,102 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 33 | #2,582 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 35 | #2,357 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 37 | #2,255 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 32 | #2,413 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 25 | #2,780 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 28 | #2,548 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,196 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,891 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,565 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,688 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,267 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,530 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,550 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,567 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,888 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,527 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,736 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,410 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,507 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Kayce a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,540 Americans recorded as Kayce, 49% are girls and 51% boys. Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Kayce every year since 2020. In 2025 it went to 85 girls and 843 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kayce: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kayce, and how old are they?
6,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 6,540 Americans ever recorded as Kayce. The median Kayce alive today is 5 years old; half are between 2 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 2,897 people named Kayce (2,589 women and girls, 308 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,104 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 35 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 390 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,340 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 925 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,740 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Kayce born?
The states with the most babies named Kayce are Texas, California and Georgia, with 23% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 85 | #431 | 1.0× |
| California | 71 | #501 | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 39 | #316 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 37 | #308 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 35 | #513 | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 34 | #211 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 33 | #401 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 29 | #385 | 0.4× |
| Washington | 27 | #276 | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 26 | #341 | 0.4× |
Where Kayce is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kayce is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1955 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kayce with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 10,174 babies since 1880, Kayce is the most given (64% of them). In 2025 it was given to 928 of their 1,160 babies (80%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kayce
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1950-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Halston | 1,626 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Kayce and names like it
- Compare Kayce and KaceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKayce peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kayce since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Kayce.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kayce alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.